DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The agenda for the conference, which is being hosted in Boise, Idaho, shows that the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and the waste management company Veolia North America are sponsoring two of the “beat dinners” hosted on Friday, April 21 — the third day of the event.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

They've expanded their markets and slashed carbon footprints along the way, cementing reputations as innovators. A virtual GreenBiz event June 23, "How to Get Your Supply Chain to Embrace Circularity," moderated by GreenBiz co-founder and Executive Editor Joel Makower, revealed insights. Ahead of the times.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

Carbon Positive- Business as Usual. Though we are beginning to see a shift towards greener business practices and sweeping sustainability commitments, companies are almost all still carbon positive, meaning they produce emissions greater than zero. Carbon Offsets. “Net zero” or “real zero”, what’s the difference? In the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. No doubt Shell is counting on some miracle like carbon capture to preserve its adherence to a century-old business model of selling oil. And who could blame it? What happened?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While most changes have been negative–canceled or delayed surgeries, intensive care units filled to maximum capacity, and provider burnout–the rise of telemedicine, virtual care, and remote monitoring is considered a silver lining by many patients and healthcare providers alike. The carbon footprint savings range between 0.70-372

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Severe weather events may affect the company’s manufacturing sites or supply chain security, or climate regulation may mean that some of its products and services are no longer relevant. On the other hand, the company emits carbon emissions that affect the environment and people’s livelihoods.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

We hypothesized this pollution is a big driver of cardiovascular disease and cardiac events in people with COPD,” says lead author Sarath Raju. At the end of the experiment, all 46 participants with active HEPA and carbon filters had improved markers of heart health, specifically a 25% increase in heart rate variability.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its founder is Andre Gafford. Its founder is Keith Crossland.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance also urges policymakers to standardise carbon credits to allow carbon markets to act as a market proxy in the absence of a global carbon price. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said. gigatonnes in 2025, the group said.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Future of Carbon Policy Forum Is where you want to be on January 4th at Amazon’s Seattle Campus Can we sequester carbon under our wheels? Our innovative process uses gas to produce hydrogen and sequesters solid carbon at the same time. The event is currently SOLD OUT. Natural gas is 80% hydrogen atoms.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2023

Achieving carbon neutrality and effective stakeholder communication The Beacon Design Collective has focused their sustainability efforts on achieving carbon neutrality, and effective stakeholder communication and engagement, as we discuss. To validate their carbon-neutral claim, the business signed up for the Carbon Neutral Club.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

By that same token, the current headwinds for oil companies could mean a negative impact on carbon-reduction measures that would also be considered by the industry as discretionary spending. Already, we have seen companies like Occidental cutting dividends by 90 percent. It's a discretionary spend,” she added.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

New report from the Coalition for Negative Emissions argues urgent action is needed to expand carbon removals market - and businesses have a critical role to play. Most importantly, delivering net zero emissions through carbon offsets risks distracting from the need to slash emissions at source.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit has been awarded an ISO20121 certificate for sustainability, after organisers successfully proved it minimised all potential negative impacts on the environment, communities, and local economy. UK Presidency confirms UN Climate Summit has secured an ISO20121 certificate.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

The band has long voiced its concerns around the climate impact of major global concert tours, which require transportation of vast amounts of equipment and staff around the world, and in 2019 the group said it would not be touring again unless it could find lower carbon solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

Notes and thoughts from attending the informative XR For Peats Sake hosted by XR Morecambe Bay via Zoom yesterday evening, leading the event Si Thomas, Peatland Restoration Officer, Cumbria Wildlife Trust. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. This has to change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2022

The solution is enabling Vantaa Energy’s plant operators to visualise events within boilers in real-time and schedule maintenance and optimisation projects in line with the operational status of the plant for improved efficiency, reduced emissions and longer life span.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With the rising fuel costs and global events leading the nightly news, if you’re wondering how you can make a difference and lower your energy costs simultaneously, you should consider alternative energy sources. Price increases alone should spur interest and demand in pursuing alternative energy sources. Consider It an Investment.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Hosting public events is fun. You won’t be the only one who pays the cost of the event—the environment also pays the price. On the bright side, you can shift to hosting sustainable and befitting events! Likewise, you can do it for your events, too! Any public event can do this! Work With Eco-Conscious Partners.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

The firm conducted the trial in Galloway, as part of the second phase of a world-leading project, to show how the range of smaller energy sources could be used to restore power in the highly unlikely event of a total or partial shutdown of the national electricity transmission system.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2022

A seltzer brand part-owned by Ellie Goulding has announced it will roll out carbon footprint labelling across its range from next month. The company revealed it was using climate impact assessment platform CarbonCloud to analyse the carbon footprint of its drinks entire value chain.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

Search its website for the term and a whole host of events and organisations pop up, such as “Bankers for Net Zero”, or “Get Net Zero Right”, a town hall debate promising a “frank conversation”. For instance, Drax, the UK’s biggest polluter and world’s biggest tree burner , claims it wants to become carbon negative by 2030.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mike Roeth, Executive Director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, says (via Canary Media ) that over 5 million medium- and heavy-duty trucks in North America could be converted to electric drive with no negative impact on operations. million—fall into the categories of vehicles represented in the recent Run on Less test.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

While the fossil fuel sector commanded about 28 percent of the stock market in 1980, it now accounts for about 5 percent or less of the market, Sanzillo said during the event. They found that if the funds had divested from fossil fuel holdings ten years ago, their cumulative carbon spew would have been about 16.6

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As the AP reported , “grassroots anti-hunger groups and food experts blasted the event as too corporate, tech-focused.”. Companies have also been promoting the use of better technology for the application of fertilizers and pesticides, along with backing efforts to store more carbon in the soil. And some experts remain sceptical.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

As a result, oil prices have plummeted and yesterday even went negative for the first time in history as global storage capacity for oil filled up, meaning in theory oil producers would have had to pay customers to take oil off their hands, rather than selling it at over $30 a barrel as they were just weeks ago. That is evolving.

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